Richard Strauss | Ariadne auf Naxos
Inszenierung und Bühne
Dmitri Tcherniakov
Director
Birthplace:
Moscow, Russia
Studies:
Russian Academy of Theatre Arts, Moscow (1993)
Prizes:
The Golden Mask, Premio Franco Abbiati, Premios Líricos Teatro Campoamor, International K. S. Stanislavsky Prize, The International Opera Award (Category: Best Director), Stage Designer and Director of the Year (Opernwelt-Magazine)
Important productions:
„Salome“ (Hamburgische Staatsoper, 2023), „From the House of the Dead“ (Ruhrtriennale, 2023) „War and Peace“ (Bayerische Staatsoper, 2023), „Der Ring des Nibelungen“ (Staatsoper Unter den Linden, 2023), „Der fliegende Holländer“ (Bayreuth Festival, 2021), „Eugene Onegin“ (Wiener Staatsoper, 2020), „Cosi fan tutte“ (Aix-en-Provence Fesitval, 2020), „Les Troyens“ (Opéra national de Paris, 2019), „Tristan und Isolde“ (Staatsoper Unter den Linden, 2018), „Fürst Igor“ (Dutch National Opera Amsterdam, 2017), „Snegourochka“ (Opéra National de Paris, 20217), „Carmen“ (Festival d‘Aix-en-Provence, 2017), „Iolanta/Der Nussknacker“ (Opéra National de Paris, 2016), „Pelléas et Mélisande“ (Opernhaus Zürich, 2016), „Herzog Blaubarts Burg/Senza Sangue“ (Hamburgische Staatsoper, 2016), „Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District“ (English National Opera, 2015 and Deutsche Oper am Rhein, 2008), „Don Giovanni“ (Canadian Opera Company, 2015), „Parsifal“ (Staatsoper Unter den Linden, 2015), „Lulu“ (Bayerische Staatsoper, 2015), „Die Legende von der unsichtbaren Stadt Kiteg“ (Gran Teatre del Liceu, 2014 and Nederlandse Opera Amsterdam, 2012), „La Traviata“ (Teatro alla Scala, 2013), „Die Zarenbraut“ (Staatsoper Unter den Linden, 2014), „Fürst Igor“ (Metropolitan Opera, 2014), „Jenufa“ (Opernhaus Zürich, 2012), „Il trovatore“ (La Monnaie, 2012), „Don Giovanni“ (Festival d‘Aix-en-Provence, 2010), „Ruslan und Ludmila“ (Bolschoi-Theater,2011), „Simone Boccanegra“(English National Opera, 2011), „Dialogues des Carmélites“ (Bayerische Staatsoper, 2010), „Wozzeck“ (Bolschoi-Theater, 2010), „Macbeth“ (Opéra national de Paris, 2009), „Chowanschtschina“ (Bayerische Staatsoper, 2008), „Der Spieler“ (Staatsoper Unter den Linden, 2008), „Eugen Onegin“ (Bolschoi-Theater, 2006), „Boris Godunow“ (Staatsoper Unter den Linden, 2005), „Aida“(Novosibirsk, 2004), „The Rake’s Progress“ (Bolschoi-Theater, 2003), „Ein Leben für den Zaren“ and „Tristan und Isolde“ (Mariinski-Theater, 2002), et al.
Career stages:
Director, Stage and Costume Designer since 1993
photo: Doris Spiekemann-Klaas
Musikalische Leitung
Kent Nagano
General Music Director of Hamburg
Kent Nagano is considered one of today’s outstanding conductors for both operatic and orchestral repertoire. Since September 2015, he has been General Music Director of the Hamburg State Opera and Chief Conductor of the Philharmonic State Orchestra Hamburg. In addition, he is committed as Artistic Director of the Ring project “The Wagner Cycles” of Dresdner Musikfestspiele with Dresdner Festspielorchester and Concerto Köln, and as patron of the Herrenchiemsee Festival. He has been Honorary Conductor of the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin since 2006, Concerto Köln since 2019, the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal since 2021 and the Philharmonisches Staatsorchester since 2023.
The 2024/25 season is Kent Nagano's last season as General Music Director in Hamburg and brings four new productions to the Staatsoper under Nagano's musical direction: Carl Orff's Trionfi, Richard Strauss' Ariadne auf Naxos, Unsuk Chin's The Dark Side of the Moon, and Rodolphe Bruneau-Boulmier's The Illusions of William Mallory. Furthermore, he conducts symphony concerts with the Philharmonisches Staatsorchester in the Elbphilharmonie as he does every season, including the New Year's performance and the world premiere of Alex Nante's symphony Anahata, a work commissioned by the Philharmonic State Orchestra.
Highlights of recent seasons in Hamburg have included opera productions such as Boris Godunov, Salome, performances of Sciarrino's Venere e Adone and Britten's Peter Grimes, Les Troyens, Lulu, Lessons in Love and Violence and the world premiere of Stilles Meer as well as Les Contes d'Hoffmann in the new production by Daniele Finzi Pasca (released on DVD by EuroArts, February 2022), the “Philharmonic Academy” in St. Michaelis, open-air concerts at the Rathausmarkt and the world premiere of Pascal Dusapin's work Waves for organ and orchestra at the Elbphilharmonie. Orchestral tours with the Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg have taken Kent Nagano to Japan, Spain and South America.
In the 2024/25 season, Kent Nagano conducts the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in Passau, the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal in Montréal and the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester in Berlin, among others. He also conducts Dusapin's Il Vaggio, Dante in a production by Claus Guth at the Paris Opera and the revival of Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre in a production by Krzysztof Warlikowski at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich.
As a much sought-after guest conductor, Kent Nagano regularly works with leading international orchestras worldwide, including the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre Philharmonique Radio France, the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, the Orchestre de l'Opéra national in Paris, the Chicago and Detroit Symphony Orchestras, the Radio Filharmonisch Orkest and the Wiener Symphoniker. A special project was the Bernstein opera A quiet place at the Paris Opera. Other opera productions include the world premiere of Dusapin's Il viaggio, dante at the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, Hindemith's Cardillac, Henze's Die Bassariden and the world premiere of Saariaho's L'amour de loin at the Salzburg Festival. Other world premieres conducted by Nagano include Bernstein's A White House Cantata and the operas Alice in Wonderland by Unsuk Chin, Three Sisters by Peter Eötvös and The Death of Klinghoffer and El Niño by John Adams.
Under the artistic direction of Kent Nagano and the Intendant of the Dresdner Musikfestspiele Jan Vogler, Wagner's Ring Tetralogy will be performed in the artistic context of the period in which it was composed, based on the latest findings of research into Wagner and performance practice, and integrated into an extensive supporting program as part of the multi-year project The Wagner Cycles of the Dresdner Musikfestspiele from 2023 to 2026. The first performance in 2023 was Das Rheingold at the Dresden Music Festival and the tour to Cologne, Ravello and Lucerne under the musical direction of Kent Nagano. Die Walküre followed in 2024 as the second work in the epochal narrative in Prague, Amsterdam, Cologne, Dresden, Hamburg and Lucerne. In 2025, the project devotes itself to Richard Wagner's Siegfried and gives historically informed concert performances in international concert halls and opera houses.
Highlights of Kent Nagano's collaboration with the OSM as Music Director from 2006 to 2020 included the inauguration of the orchestra’s new concert hall La Maison Symphonique in September 2011, performances of the complete cycles of Beethoven and Mahler symphonies, Schoenberg's Gurrelieder, concert versions of Wagner's Tannhäuser, Tristan und Isolde and Das Rheingold, Honegger's Jeanne d'Arc au Bücher, and Messiaen's Saint François d'Assise. Tours have taken Nagano and the orchestra to Canada including the Northern Territories, Japan, South Korea, Europe (latest 2019), Latin America and the USA. In July 2018, Kent Nagano conducted Krzysztof Penderecki’s St. Luke Passion with the OSM at the Salzburg Festival opening concert.
His recordings with the OSM on Sony Classical/Analekta include Mahler’s Orchestral Songs with Christian Gerhaher in 2013 and a complete recording of all of Beethoven’s symphonies in 2015. Decca released a recording of the North American premiere of L'Aiglon, a rarely performed opera by Honegger and Ibert in 2016, conducted by Nagano in 2015. Further releases by Decca are Danse Macabre with works by Dukas, Saint-Saens, Ives and others in 2016 as well as a recording of Bernstein's A quiet place in 2018 on the occasion of the composer's 100th birthday. John Adams' Common tones in simple time & harmony (Decca) was released in 2019, the Lukas Passion by Penderecki (BIS) and works by Ginastera, Bernstein and Moussa (Analekta) in 2020.
At the Bayerische Staatsoper, where he was General Music Director from 2006 to 2013, Kent Nagano commissioned new operas such as Babylon by Jörg Widmann, Das Gehege by Wolfgang Rihm and Alice in Wonderland by Unsuk Chin. New productions included Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov and Khovanshchina, Strauss' Ariadne auf Naxos and Die Frau ohne Schatten, Poulenc's Dialogues des Carmelites, Messiaen’s Saint François d'Assise, Berg’s Wozzeck, George Benjamin's Written on skin and Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen. Tours took Nagano and the Bavarian State Orchestra through Europe and Japan. In addition to Bruckner's Symphonies Nos. 4 and 7 (Sony), Kent Nagano has released several opera performances with the Bavarian State Orchestra on DVD: Unsuk Chin's opera Alice in Wonderland (2008) and Mussorgsky's Chowanschtschina (2009) with unitel classica/medici arts, Dialogue des Carmélites with Bel Air Classiques (2011) and Lohengrin (2010) with Decca.
Another very important period in Nagano’s career was his time as Artistic Director and Chief Conductor of the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin from 2000-2006. He performed Schönberg’s Moses und Aron with the orchestra (in collaboration with Los Angeles Opera) and took them to the Salzburg Festival to perform both Zemlinsky’s Der König Kandaules and Schreker’s Die Gezeichneten, as well as to the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden with Parsifal and Lohengrin in productions by Nikolaus Lehnhoff. Recordings with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin for Harmonia Mundi include repertoire as diverse as Bernstein’s Mass, Bruckner’s Symphonies Nos. 3 & 6, Beethoven’s Christus am Ölberge, Wolf’s Mörike-Lieder, Mahler’s Symphony No. 8, Schönberg’s Die Jakobsleiter and Friede auf Erden, as well as Brahms’s Symphony No. 4 and Schönberg’s Variationen für Orchester Op. 31. In June 2006, at the end of his tenure with the orchestra, Kent Nagano was given the title Honorary Conductor by members of the orchestra – only the second recipient of this honour in their 60-year history. To this day he maintains a close friendship with the orchestra.
In October 2019, Kent Nagano and Mari Kodama expanded their joint recordings of Beethoven's works for piano and orchestra with Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 0 E-flat Major WoO 4, a nearly unknown work from the composer’s youth, and his Rondo for Piano and Orchestra WoO 6 with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin. The complete edition of Beethoven’s piano concerti was released on the Berlin Classics label.
Nagano was awarded Grammys for his recordings of Busoni’s Doktor Faust with Opéra National de Lyon, Prokofjew’s Peter and the Wolf with the Russian National Orchestra and Saariaho’s L’amour de Loin with the Deutsches Symphonieorchester Berlin. He has worked with labels such as BIS, Decca, Sony Classical, FARAO Classics and Analekta for many years, and has also recorded CDs with Berlin Classics, Erato, Teldec, Pentatone, Deutsche Grammophon and Harmonia Mundi.
To celebrate Kent Nagano's 70th birthday in 2021, a 3-CD box set of works by Olivier Messiaen was released in October on the BR Klassik label. The release includes live recordings of the works Poèmes pour Mi, Chronochromie and La Transfiguration de Notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ from his concerts with the Symphonieorchester und Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, demonstrating Nagano's close familiarity with Messiaen's musical language in a special way.
In September 2021, Kent Nagano published his second book with Berlin Verlag. In "10 Lessons of my Life", he recalls ten deeply personal encounters from which he learned important lessons, not only for his career but for his life more broadly. Among those experiences are encounters with the Icelandic pop artist Björk, Frank Zappa, Leonard Bernstein, Pierre Boulez and the Nobel Prize winner in physics Donald Glaser.
In 2015 Kent Nagano published "Erwarten Sie Wunder!" also in Berlin Verlag, a passionate appeal for the relevance of classical music in today's world. In 2019 the book was released in English by the Canadian McGill-Queen's University Press under the title ″Classical Music - Expect the Unexpected" and in 2015 under "Sonnez, merveilles!" in French by Éditions du Boréal.
Born in California, Nagano maintains close connections with his home state and was Music Director of the Berkeley Symphony Orchestra from 1978-2009. His first major successes came with the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1984, when Messiaen appointed him assistant to conductor Seiji Ozawa for the premiere of his opera Saint François d'Assise. Nagano’s success in America led to European appointments: Music Director of Opéra National de Lyon (1988-1998) and Music Director of the Hallé Orchestra (1991-2000). Kent Nagano became the first Music Director of Los Angeles Opera in 2003 having already held the position of Principal Conductor for two years.
Kent Nagano was awarded an honorary doctorate from McGill University in Montréal in 2005, an honorary doctorate from the Université de Montréal in 2006, and an honorary doctorate from San Francisco State University in 2018. Since 2017, Kent Nagano has been a "Compagnon" of the "Ordre des arts et des lettres" of Québec and in the fall of 2023, Kent Nagano was also awarded the title of "Chevalier" in the "Ordre des art et des lettres" of France. In February 2024, Kent Nagano was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany by the Federal President and in June 2024 he was awarded the Order of Canada, Canada's highest civilian honor. Kent Nagano is the recipient of the 2024 Brahms Prize of the Brahms Society of Schleswig-Holstein.
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Dramaturgie
Michael Sangkuhl
Dramaturgy
Birthplace:
Regensburg, Germany
Studies:
Historical musicology, philosophy and art history at the University of Regensburg
Relation to the State Opera:
Dramaturge at the Hamburg State Opera and for the concerts of the Philharmonic State Orchestra since the 2022/23 season
Stations:
Internships, assistant director, evening stage manager and stage manager for surtitles at the Staatstheater Saarbrücken, at the Theater Regensburg and at the Tiroler Festspiele in Erl
Academic teaching in the field of musicology at the University of Regensburg
photo: Johannes Xaver Zepplin
Dramaturgie
Dr. Angela Beuerle
Dramaturge
Origin:
Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
Studies:
Musicology, German and Scandinavian Studies, University of Hamburg; doctorate (Dr. phil.) with a thesis on medieval language theory
Career stages:
Freelance dramaturge for music theatre (since 2014), teaching at the theatre academy of the HfMT Hamburg (since 2014), dramaturge for music theatre at Staatstheater Stuttgart (2006-2014), freelance artistic participation at Hamburgische Staatsoper, Ruhrtriennale (until 2006); publishes regularly in the fields of opera, concert, music and literature
Cooperations:
Peter Konwitschny, La fura dels baus, Joachim Schlömer, Igor Bauersima, Yona Kim, Thomas Bischoff, Markus Dietz, Calixto Bieito, Andrea Moses, Jossi Wieler/Sergio Morabito, Lydia Steier, Philipp Himmelmann, u. a.
Musiklehrer
Martin Gantner
Bariton
Birthplace:
Freiburg, Germany
Studies:
Singing at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe
Prizes:
Appointment as Kammersänger (Bayerische Staatsoper München, 2005)
Important parts:
Telramund (Lohengrin), Beckmesser (Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg), Amfortas (Parsifal), Kurwenal (Tristan und Isolde), Wolfram (Tannhäuser), Kaiser Overall (Der Kaiser von Atlantis), Diktator (Der Diktator), Cardillac (Cardillac), Jochanaan (Salome), Pizarro (Fidelio), Faninal (Der Rosenkavalier), Posa (Don Carlo), Il Conte d‘Almaviva (Le nozze di Figaro), Eisenstein (Die Fledermaus), et al.
Stages:
Bayerische Staatsoper, Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Semperoper Dresden, Staatsoper Stuttgart, Teatro alla Scala Mailand, Opéra Bastille, Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, Los Angeles Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Canadian Opera Company, Opernhaus Zürich, Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, New National Theatre Tokyo, et al.
Cooperation with directors:
David Alden, Andreas Homoki, Arpad Schilling, Herbert Wernicke, Maximilian Schell, Martin Kusej, David Pountney, Tim Albery, et al.
Cooperation with conductors:
Zubin Mehta, Christian Thielemann, Kent Nagano, Semyon Bychkov, James Conlon, Peter Schneider, Fabio Luisi, Gianandrea Noseda, Bertrand de Billy, Philippe Jordan, Bernard Haitink, et al.
photo: Tom Jasny
Komponist
Yuriy Mynenko
Countertenor
Birthplace:
Radomyshl, Ukraine
Studies:
Singing at the National Antonina Neschdanowa Music Academy in Odessa
Important parts:
Ottone (Gismondo, re di Polonia), Aci (Polifemo), Giulio Cesare (Giulio Cesare in Egitto), Giustino (Il Giustino), Eliogabalo (Eliogabalo ), Lel (Snegurotschka), Romeo (Giulietta e Romeo), Sesto (La clemenza di Tito), Polinesso (Ariodante), et al.
Stages:
Nationaltheater Mannheim, Oper Köln, Oper Stuttgart, Staatstheater Kassel, Theater an der Wien, Opéra de Lausanne, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées Paris, Opéra Royal de Versailles, Opéra national de Lorraine Nancy, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Kennedy Center Washington, Oper Bastille, Santa Fe Opera, et al.
Cooperations with directors:
Calixto Bieito, et al.
Cooperations with conductors:
Kazem Abdullah, Teodor Currentzis, Alan Curtis, Marc-André Dalbavie, Paul Daniel, Dan Ettinger, Diego Fasolis, Grant Gershon, Reinhard Goebel, Simon Halsey, Roman Kofman, Andris Nelsons, Christopher Molds, Vasily Petrenko, George Petrou, Mikhail Jurowski and Vladimir Jurowski, et al.
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Tenor / Bacchus
Jamez McCorkle
Tenor
An innate musician and trained pianist, American tenor Jamez McCorkle made headlines after his critically acclaimed appearance in the title role of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize-winning opera Omar which premiered at the Spoleto Festival in 2022 and was subsequently presented at LA Opera, Boston Lyric Opera and Carolina Performing Arts Center.
This season, Omar premieres at the San Francisco Opera with McCorkle in the title role, making his company debut. He then sings his first Bacchus in Richard Strauss’ Ariadne auf Naxos at the Royal Danish Opera in Copenhagen and his first Laca in in Robert Carsen’s production of Jenůfa at Vlaamse Opera. On the concert platform he performs Handel Messiah at the US Naval Academy, sings Froh Das Rheingold with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and Fabio Luisi and performs Das Lied von der Erde with the Danish National Symphony Orchestra.
Recent highlights include his hailed return to Spoleto Festival for an innovative staged production of Schumann’s Dichterliebe where he performed the famous song cycle accompanying himself at the piano; Duke of Cornwall Lear at the Bayerische Staatsoper; his house and role debut as Telemaco in a new production of Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria with Theatre Basel; Peter the Honeyman in the hugely acclaimed production of Porgy and Bess at the Metropolitan Opera; Leonard Woolfe in Kevin Puts’ new opera The Hours with the Philadelphia Orchestra under the baton of Yannick Nézet-Séguin; performances of Britten War Requiem with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra; Tamino Die Zauberflöte with Kentucky Opera; Lensky Eugene Onegin with Michigan Opera Theatre and at the Spoleto Festival, where he also sang Beethoven’s 9th Symphony.
A graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music, McCorkle is an alumnus of the Mannes College, The New School for Music and Loyola University, New Orleans. He was a member of the International Opera Studio in Zurich and took part in the Young Artist Program of the Salzburg Festival in 2017. McCorkle was a finalist in the coveted Neue Stimmen competition in 2019 and is a winner of several awards and competitions including the George London Competition, Sullivan Foundation, Brava! Opera Competition, National Opera Association Vocal Competition and the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, Gulf Coast Region.
photo: Sophia Germer
Tanzmeister
Peter Tantsits
Tenor
Birthplace:
Allentown, Pennslyvania USA
Studies:
Yale University, Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme
Important parts:
Emigrante (Intolleranza), Maximilian Aue (Les Bienveillantes), Herodes (Salome), Desportes (Die Soldaten), Piet vom Fass (Le Grand Macabre), Aegisth (Elektra), Wachtmeister (Die Nase), Graf Ferraud (Oberst Chabert), Alviano (Die Gezeichneten), Erik (Der fliegende Holländer), Eumolpe (Perséphone), Gandhi (Satyagraha), Andres (Wozzeck), Perelà (Perelà - Uomo di Fumo), Danilowitz (L’étoile du nord), Oscar Ekdahl (Fanny och Alexander), Pellerin (Volo di notte), Poe (The Voyage of Edgar Allan Poe), L’Autre (Point d’orgue), Michael (Donnerstag aus Licht), Electrician (Powder Her Face), Mr. Smith (Die kahle Sängerin), John Worthing (The Importance of Being Earnest), Georges Méliès (Die Reise zum Mond) et al.
Stages:
Teatro alla Scala Mailand, Salzburger Festspiele, Bayerische Staatsoper, Gran Teatre del Liceu, La Monnaie / De Munt, Royal Opera Covent Garden, Grand Théâtre de Genève, Semperoper Dresden, Los Angeles Opera, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, New National Theatre Tokyo, Theater Basel, Oper Köln, Berliner Philharmonie, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Gewandhaus Leipzig, Musiikkitalo Helsinki, Hong Kong Arts Festival, Beijing Music Festival, Festival d’Automne à Paris, Holland Festival, Wiener Festwochen, Osterfestspiele Baden-Baden et al.
Cooperation with directors:
Lydia Steier, Calixto Bieito, Peter Sellars, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Milo Rau, Ivo van Hove, William Kentridge, Herbert Fritsch, Robert Lepage, Benedikt von Peter, Barbora Horáková, Antony McDonald, Robert Woodruff, Andreas Kriegenburg, et al.
Cooperation with conductors:
Simon Rattle, Kirill Petrenko, Sakari Oramo, Thomas Adès, Alan Gilbert, Peter Rundel, Emmanuelle Haïm, Titus Engel, Fabio Luisi, Leonard Slatkin, Lorin Maazel, Kazushi Ono, Tito Ceccherini, Joana Mallwitz, Hannu Lintu, André de Ridder, Emilio Pomàrico, Ariane Matiakh, Josep Pons et al.
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Perückenmacher
Grzegorz Pelutis
Baritone
Birthplace:
Słupsk, Poland
Studies:
Bachelor and Masters at Academy of Art in Szczecin, both graduated with honours, Janusz Lewandowski’s singing class (2016-2021)
Master classes:
Opera Academy Young Talent Development Programme of the Teatr Wielki – Polish National Opera In Warsaw (since 2021):
Consant tutelage by: Izabela Kłosińska, Olga Pasiecznik, Eytan Pessen, Matthias Rexroth, Michał Biel, Katelan Tran Terrell;
Guest masterclasses: Edith Wiens, Ewa Podleś, Mariusz Kwiecień, Maciej Pikulski, Hedwig Fassbender, Tobias Truniger, Adrian Kelly, Vesselina Kassarova, Fausto Nardi, Małgorzata Walewska
Prizes:
3rd prize and Juan Pons Prize at I International Juan Pons Singing Competition - Palma de Mallorca, Spain, June 2022
2nd prize winner at 1st Swiss International Music Competition – online, July 2021
2nd prize winner and special prize winner of the Director of the K. Namysłowski Symphony Orchestra in Zamość at 7th Krystyna Jamroz National Vocal Competition - Kielce/Busko-Zdrój, Poland, February 2022
3rd prize winner at 7th National Vocal Competition in Drezdenko, Poland, November 2021
3rd prize winner in"Opera Singers" category at"Prague Romansiada" competition, Prague 2017
Only Polish contestant of Plácido Domingo's Operalia 2022
Relation to the Hamburg State Opera:
Member of the International Opera Studio of the Hamburg State Opera since the season 2023/24
Important parts:
Chorąży “Ensign” (Hrabina - "The Countess"), Dudziarz (Halka), The Mayor “Burmistrz” (Szarlatan, czyli wskrzeszanie zmarłych - “Charlatan, or resurrection of the dead”), Escamillo (Carmen), Archiereios (King Roger), et al.
Stages:
Teatr Wielki – National Polish Opera, The Castle Opera in Szczecin, Polish Philharmonic "Sinfonia Baltica" named after Wojciech Kilar in Słupsk, Gorzów Philharmonic, Tadeusz Baird Philharmonic in Zielona Góra, Stanisław Moniuszko Philharmonic in Koszalin, Karol Szymanowski Philharmonic in Cracow, Various concerts across Europe, e. g. Berlin, Kaliningrad, Prague, Magdeburg, Warsaw, Varna
Cooperation with directors:
Mariusz Treliński, Barbara Wiśniewska, Rafał Matusz, Jitka Stokalska, et al.
Cooperation with conductors:
Jerzy Wołosiuk, Małgorzata Bornowska, Tadeusz Kozłowski, Michał Klauza, Agnieszka Franków-Żelazny, Stefan Plewniak, et al.
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Haushofmeister
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Zerbinetta
Nadezhda Pavlova
Soprano
Nadezhda Pavlova startete ihre Karriere in der russischen Republik Karelien, zuerst als Studentin an der Musikhochschule der Hauptstadt Petrosawodsk, dann als Solistin am dortigen Opernhaus. Kurz nachdem Teodor Currentzis zum Künstlerischen Leiter der Staatsoper Perm ernannt wurde, wechselte die Sopranistin ebenfalls nach Perm, wo sie seit 2012/13 Solistin ist.
Für ihre Interpretation der Titelrolle von „La traviata“ erhielt Nadezhda Pavlova 2017 die „Goldene Maske“, den bedeutendsten russischen Theaterpreis. Unter Currentzis sang sie diese Partie im Oktober 2018 in einer konzertanten Aufführung auch in der Elbphilharmonie, wofür sie vom Publikum mit Standing Ovations bedacht wurde. Sie ist regelmäßig als Gastsolistin am Musiktheater zu erleben, u.a. auch an der Lettischen National¬oper. Auf der Opernbühne feierte sie Erfolge in Partien wie der Titelrolle in Donizettis „Lucia di Lammermoor“, in Poulencs „Les dialogues des Carmélites“ und Honeggers „Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher“. Ihr Konzertrepertoire umfasst Werke von Bach bis Strauss sowie Liederzyklen russischer Komponisten. Nadezhda Pavlova ist Preisträgerin mehrerer internationaler Wettbewerbe sowie Honored Artist der russischen Föderation.
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Primadonna / Ariadne
Anja Kampe
Soprano
Birthplace:
Zella-Mehlis, Germany
Studies:
Vocal training in Dresden and Turin
Prizes:
Appointment as Bavarian Kammersängerin (2018)
Important parts:
Brünnhilde (Die Walküre), Isolde (Tristan und Isolde), Ortrud (Lohengrin), Kundry (Parsifal), Katerina Ismailova (Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk), Floria Tosca (Tosca), Giorgetta (Tabarro), Ariadne (Ariadne auf Naxos), Carlotta (Die Gezeichneten), et al.
Stages:
Vienna State Opera, Bavarian State Opera, Staatsoper Unter den Linden Berlin, Zurich Opera House, Opéra National de Paris, Bayreuth Festival, Ruhrtriennale, Salzburg Easter Festival, Teatro alla Scala, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Teatro Real in Madrid, Gran Teatre del Liceu, Teatro di San Carlo, Budapest Wagner Days, Washington National Opera, San Francisco Opera, Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, Glyndebourne Festival, et al.
Cooperations with directors:
Calixto Bieito, Willy Decker, Claus Guth, Andreas Homoki, Peter Konwitschny, Harry Kupfer, Dimitri Tschnerniakow, Richard Jones, Tatjana Gürbaca, et al.
Cooperations with conductors:
Zubin Mehta, Kirill Petrenko, Daniel Barenboim, Philippe Jordan, Christian Thielemann, Claudio Abbado, Semyon Bychkov, James Conlon, Mark Elder, Adam Fischer, Daniele Gatti, Valery Gergiev, Daniel Harding, Marek Janowski, Simone Young, Vladimir Jurowski, Jesùs López-Cobos, Fabio Luisi, Nicola Luisotti, Riccardo Muti, Kent Nagano, Andris Nelsons, Kazushi Ono, Donald Runnicles, Franz Welser-Möst, et al.
photo: Sasha Vasiljev
Harlekin
Björn Bürger
Baritone
Birthplace:
Rodgau, Germany
Studies:
singing at the Frankfurt Conservatoire, taught by Hedwig Fassbender
Master classes:
with Kurt Moll, Helmut Deutsch and Christoph Pregardien.
Prizes:
Winner of the Frankfurt Polytechnic Society competition (2012),
First Prize in the Bundeswettbewerb Gesang competition in Berlin (2012)
Important parts:
Don Giovanni/Masetto (Don Giovanni), Il Conte di Almaviva (Le Nozze di Figaro), Marquis von Posa (Don Carlos), Doktor Malatesta (Don Pasquale), Papageno (Die Zauberflöte), Figaro (Il Barbiere di Siviglia), Dr. Falke (Die Fledermaus), Harlekin (Ariadne auf Naxos), Wolfram von Eschenbach (Tannhäuser), Billy Budd (Billy Budd), Georg (Der Mieter), Dandini (La Cenerentola), Owen Windgrave (Owen Windgrave), Frank/Fritz (Die tote Stadt), Pelléas (Pelléas et Mélisande), König Argante (Rinaldo), Osmin (Mozarts Zaide), Bengtsson (Die Gespenstersonate), Schaunard (La Boheme), Astolfo (Orlando Furioso), Don Bucefalo (Le cantatrici villane)
Stages:
Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie, Opéra National du Rhin, Staatsoper Stuttgart, Opéra National de Paris, Norwegische Oper Oslo, Bayerische Staatsoper, Semperoper Dresden, Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Opéra de Lausanne, De Nationale Opera Amsterdam, Oper Frankfurt, Grand Théâtre de Genève, Glyndebourne Festival, Händelfestspiele Kralsruhe
Cooperations with directors:
Christoph Loy, Robert Carsen et.al.
Cooperations with conductors:
Ingo Metzmacher, Kirill Garrijewitsch Petrenko et.al.
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photo: Matthias Baus
Scaramuccio
Florian Panzieri
Tenor
Birthplace:
Paris, France
Studies:
History and Politics, University of Warwick
Singing, Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London
Relation to the Hamburg State Opera:
Member of the International Opera Studio of the Hamburg State Opera since the 2022/2023 season
Important parts:
Peter Quint (The Turn of the Screw), Nemorino (L’elisir d’amore), Primo Pastore (Orfeo), Don Ottavio (Don Giovanni), Berthold (Scoring a Century), Erasmus (Silvesternacht), 1. und 3. Vorarbeiter (Lady Macbeth von Mzensk), Un Venditore di Canzonette (Il trittico), et al.
Stages:
Garsington Opera, Reggio Emilia Teatro Valli, The Merry Opera, British Youth Opera, Royal Opera House London, Staatsoper Hamburg, et al.
Cooperations with directors:
Paul Curran, John Caird, Keith Warner, Fabio Condemi, Axel Ranisch, Mart Van Berckel, et al.
Cooperations with conductors:
Kent Negano, Giampaolo Bisanti, Francesco Bossaglia, Ivan Repusic, et al.
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photo: Benjamin Reason
Truffaldin
Stephan Bootz
Bass, Bass-Baritone
Birthplace:
Mainz, Germany
Studies:
Singing/music theater (diploma), HfM Hanns Eisler Berlin
Important parts:
Wotan (Das Rheingold), Wotan (Die Walküre), Der Wanderer (Siegfried), König Marke (Tristan und Isolde), Kaspar/Eremit (Der Freischütz), Figaro (Le nozze di Figaro), Il grande Inquisitore (Don Carlo), Pimen (Boris Godunov), Jochanaan (Salome), Il padre Guardiano (La forza del destino), Don Alfonso (Così fan tutte), Oroveso (Norma), Ramfis (Aida)
Stages:
Staatstheater Mainz (Stammhaus), Staatsoper Stuttgart, Ruhrtriennale, Theater Freiburg, Landestheater Niederbayern, Staatstheater Darmstadt, Stadttheater Gießen, Staatstheater Oldenburg, Staatstheater Cottbus, Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe
Cooperations with directors:
Dimitri Tcherniakov, Elisabeth Stöppler, Lydia Steier, Immo Karaman, Alexander Nerlich, Johannes Reitmeier, Eva-Maria Höckmayr, Robert Lehmeier, Stefan Tilch, Luise Kautz, Bernd Mottl, Frank Hilbrich
Cooperations with conductors:
Dennis Russel Davies, Hermann Bäumer, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Phillipe Jordan
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photo: Peter Litvai
Brighella
Daniel Kluge
Tenor
Birthplace:
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Studies:
Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe with Klaus Dieter Kern
Master classes:
with Roman Trekel, Julia Varady and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau as well as master classes for „Liedgesang“ with Markus Hadulla, Mitsuko Shirai and Hartmut Höll
Relation to the Hamburg State Opera:
Ensemble member of the Hamburg State Opera since the 2019/20 season
Important parts:
Normanno (Lucia di Lammermoor), Abdallo (Nabucco), Remendado (Carmen), Flavio (Norma), Knappe und 1. Gralsritter (Parsifal), Kilian (Freischütz), Dr. Blind (Die Fledermaus), Spoletta (Tosca), Schreiber (Chowanschtschina), Jacquino (Fidelio), Ein Soldat (Reigen), Chick (Der Schaum der Tage), Borsa (Rigoletto), Knusperhexe (Hänsel und Gretel), Orpheus (Orpheus in der Unterwelt), Pedrillo (Die Entführung aus dem Serail), Truffaldino (Die Liebe zu drei Orangen), Balakin (Charodeyka), Max (Der Freischütz), Tanzmeister (Ariadne auf Naxos), Steuermann (Der fliegende Holländer), Vierter Jude (Salome), et al.
Stages:
Staatsoper Stuttgart, Staatsoper Wien, Volksoper Wien, Stadttheater Bern, Aalto-Theater Essen, Grand Théâtre de Genève, Nationaltheater Mannheim, Opéra National de Lyon, et al.
Cooperation with directors:
Jossi Wieler, Sergio Morabito, Kirill Serebrennikov, Nicola Hümpel , Tobias Hoheisel, Imogen Kogge, Armin Petras, Demis Volpi, Axel Ranisch, et al.
Cooperation with conductors:
Sylvain Cambreling, Georg Fritzsch, Roland Kluttig, Giacomo Sagripanti, Johannes Witt, Hans Christoph Bünger, Kirill Karabits, Willem Wentzel, Alejo Pérez, Christopher Schmitz, et al.
photo: Martina Cyman
Najade
Olivia Warburton
Soprano
Birthplace:
Lincolnshire, United Kingdom
Studies:
Royal Academy of Music, London (Bachelor of Music with honours, Master of Arts with distinction, Artist Diploma in Opera studies), Hochschule für Musik und Tanz, Köln (Erasmus MA), Georg Solti Accademia, Tuscany.
Masterclasses:
Anne Sofie von Otter (Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme), Richard Bonynge (Georg Solti Accademia), Barbara Frittoli (Georg Solti Accademia), Rachel Willis-Sørensen (Royal Academy of Music), Florian Boesch (Royal Academy of Music).
Prizes:
Winner of Arthur Bucher Memorial Prize for highest mark in final recital, Prize winner at the 1st International Haydn Competition in Vienna, Finalist in Renata Tebaldi Competition 2022.
Important parts:
Zerlina (Don Giovanni), Gretel (Hänsel und Gretel), Euridice (L’anima del Filosofo), Anne Frank (Das Tagebuch der Anne Frank), Teseo (Teseo), Valetto (L’incoronazione di Poppea), Fox (The Cunning Little Vixen), L’enfant (L’enfant et les sortilèges), et al.
Stages:
Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar; Festival d’Aix en Provence; The Grange Festival; Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Paris; London Handel Festival; Halle Handel Festival; Wigmore Hall, London; Oxford Lieder Festival; The Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace; Aldeburgh Festival; Lincoln Centre, New York; Royal Festival Hall, London et al.
Cooperations with directors:
Simon McBurney, Tim Supple, Jack Furness, Jonathan Moore, Kay Kuntze, Martin Duncan, Olivia Fuchs, Oliver Platt.
Cooperations with conductors:
John Adams, Masaaki Suzuki, Jane Glover, Gregor Bühl, Eivind Gullberg Jensen, Jan Pascal Tortelier, Finnegan Downie Dear, Laurence Cummings, Victor Jacob, Ruben Gazarian, et al.
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photo: Elena Ramirez
Dryade
Aebh Kelly
Mezzo-Soprano
Birthplace:
Dublin, Ireland
Studies:
Mascarade Emerging Artists, Florence
Georg Solti Accademia
Irish National Opera Studio
Royal Irish Academy of Music (BMus)
Master class:
Richard Bonynge, Aigul Akhmetshina, Freddie De Tommaso (Georg Solti Accademia), Vivica Genaux (Mascarade Emerging Artists), Tara Erraught, Paula Murrihy (Irish National Opera), Bernarda Fink (Neue Stimmen Masterclass), Ann Murray (Royal Irish Academy of Music)
Prizes:
2nd Prize & Dermot Troy Prize (Veronica Dunne International Singing Competition)
Final Round (Neue Stimmen)
1st Prize (Maura Dowdall Concerto Competition)
Relation to the Hamburg State Opera:
Member of the International Opera Studio of the Hamburg State Opera since the 2024/2025 season.
Important parts:
Dido (Dido & Aeneas), Flora (La Traviata), Olga (Eugene Onegin), Popova (The Bear), Endimione (La Calisto), Catherine (A Thing I Cannot Name), Melissa (La liberazione di Ruggiero dall’isola d’Alcina)
Stages:
Teatro La Fenice, Theater und Orchester Heidelberg, Teatr Wielki Opera, National Opera House Wexford, Cork Opera House, National Concert Hall Dublin
Cooperation with directors:
Marie Lambert-Le Bihan, Noa Naamat, Jean-Romain Vesperini, Pedro Ribiero, Federico Grazzini, Olivia Fuchs, Sonja Trebes
Cooperation with conductors:
Laurent Wagner, Roland Kluttig, Jonathan Santagada, Jonathan Bloxham, Wyn Davies, Christian Curnyn, Fergus Sheil, Killian Farrel, David Brophy, Jonathan Cole-Swinard
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photo: Jörn Kipping
Echo
Marie Maidowski
Soprano
Birthplace:
Berlin, Germany
Studies:
Bachelor in singing and music theater with KS Prof. Julie Kaufmann at the Berlin University of the Arts Master in concert singing with KS Prof. Christiane Iven at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich
Master class:
19th Lotte Lehmann Week in Perleberg (2016)
Masterclass with Prof. Marga Schiml in Switzerland (2019)
Masterclass with Prof. Gabriele Lechner in Baden near Vienna (2020)
Prizes:
Scholarship from the Young Musicians Foundation in Mühlheim (2018) Scholarship from the Cusanuswerk study grant (since 2020) Finalist at the German National Singing Competition in the Junior Competition category (2020) Scholarship from the German Stage Association (2023) Staetshuys Fund Prize and Van Amelsvoort Prize for the best interpretation of a work by a female composer at the International Vocal Competition 2023 in `s Hertogenbosch with Lied Duo partner YoungSeob Jeon
Audience and jury prize at the HIDALGO Song Prize 2023 with Lied Duo partner YoungSeob Jeon
Relation to the Hamburg State Opera:
Member of the International Opera Studio of the Hamburg State Opera from the 2024/25 season
Important parts:
Susanna (The Marriage of Figaro), Nurse (Alzheim), Barbarina (Le nozze di Figaro), Silvia (L'isola disabitata), Lovis (Der Baumgeist), Papagena (Die Zauberflöte), Daphne Colgate (Georgia Bottoms), et al.
Stages:
Staatstheater Cottbus, Philharmonie Luxembourg, Cuvilliéstheater Munich, et al.
Cooperation with directors:
Frank Hilbrich, Bernarda Horres, Tomo Sugao, Maximilian Berling, Isabel Hindersin, et al.
Cooperation with conductors:
Errico Fresis, Johannes Zurl, Johanna Soller, Aris Blettenberg, Henri Bonamy, Gad Kadosh, et al.
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Orchester
Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg
Orchestra
The Philharmonic State Orchestra is Hamburg’s largest and oldest orchestra, looking back on many years of musical history. When the “Philharmonic Orchestra” and the “Orchestra of the Hamburg Municipal Theatre” merged in 1934, two tradition-steeped orchestras combined. Philharmonic concerts have been performed in Hamburg since 1828, artists such as Clara Schumann, Franz Liszt and Johannes Brahms being regular guests of the Philharmonic Society. The history of the opera company goes back even further: Hamburg has been home to musical theatre since 1678, even if a regular opera or theatre orchestra was only formed later. To this day, the Philharmonic State Orchestra has embodied the sound of the Hansa City, a concert and opera orchestra in one.
During its long history, the orchestra encountered great artist personalities. Apart from composers of the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, such as Telemann, Tchaikovsky, Strauss, Mahler, Prokofiev and Stravinsky, since the 20th century chief conductors such as Karl Muck, Joseph Keilberth, Eugen Jochum, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Horst Stein, Aldo Ceccato, Christoph von Dohnányi, Gerd Albrecht, Ingo Metzmacher and Simone Young have shaped the orchestra’s sound. Renowned conductors of the pre-war era such as Otto Klemperer, Wilhelm Furtwängler, Bruno Walter, Karl Böhm and Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt gave brilliant performances, as did outstanding conductors of our times: suffice it to mention Christian Thielemann, Semyon Bychkov, Kirill Petrenko, Adam Fischer and Sir Roger Norrington.
Starting with the 2015/2016 season, Kent Nagano has taken on the position of Hamburg’s General Music Director and Chief Conductor of the Philharmonic State Orchestra and the Hamburg State Opera and since June 2023 also its honorary conductor. In his first season Kent Nagano initiated a new project, the Philharmonic Academy, focusing on experimentation and chamber music. In 2016, Nagano and the Philharmonic toured South America, followed by concert tours to Spain and Japan in 2019, and in the spring of 2023, the Philharmonic State Orchestra made its debut at New York's Carnegie Hall under his direction, which was acclaimed by audiences and the press. Since 2017 Kent Nagano and the Philharmonic State Orchestra have continued the traditional Philharmonic Concerts at the new Elbphilharmonie, for which they commissioned Jörg Widmann to compose the oratorio ARCHE, which was given its world premiere during the hall’s opening festivities. The concert recording has been released by ECM, for which Widmann received the OPUS KLASSIK as Composer of the Year 2019, and ARCHE was performed again in 2023 to great acclaim.
The Philharmonic State Orchestra offers approximately 35 concerts per season and performs more than 240 performances per year at the Hamburg State Opera and the Hamburg Ballet John Neumeier, making it Hamburg’s busiest orchestra. The stylistic bandwidth covered by the 140 musicians, ranging from historically informed performance practice to contemporary works and including concert, opera and ballet repertoire, is unique throughout Germany. Chamber Music has a long tradition at the Philharmonic State Orchestra: what began in 1929 with a concert series for chamber orchestra has been continued since 1968 by a series of chamber music only.
In 2008 Simone Young and the Philharmonic State Orchestra won the Brahms Award of the Schleswig-Holstein Brahms Society. The orchestra has recorded the complete Ring by Wagner as well as the complete symphonies of Johannes Brahms and Anton Bruckner – the latter in the rarely-performed original versions – as well as works by Mahler, Hindemith and Berg, and has released DVDs of opera and ballet productions by Hosokawa, Offenbach, Reimann, Auerbach, J.S. Bach, Puccini, Poulenc and Weber.
The members of the Philharmonic State Orchestra feel equally beholden to Hamburg’s musical tradition and responsible for the city’s artistic future. Since 1978 the musicians have been participating in education programmes in Hamburg’s schools. Today, the orchestra maintains a broad education programme, including school and kindergarten visits, patronage for music projects, introductory events for children and family concerts. The orchestra’s own academy prepares young musicians for their professional careers. The Philharmonic’s musicians thereby make an equally enjoyable and valuable contribution to tomorrow’s music education in the music metropolis of Hamburg.
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